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AN* ALL OF A SUDDEN SOMEBODY SAID: "MY GOD! 
DON'T THE BOY KNOW HIS MOTHER?" 



IN VARIOUS MOODS 



POEMS AND VERSES 



IRVING BACHELLER 




HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 
NEW YORK AND LONDON 

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Copyright, 1910, by Irving Bacheller 

Published September, 1910. 
Printed in the United States of America 



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CONTENTS 



PAGE 



The Sowers i 

The New World 5 

Faith 9 

Ballad of the Sabre Cross and 7 ... 14 

Whisperin' Bill 20 

The Red Dew 27 

The Baby Corps 33 

Picture, Sound and Song 41 

The Ven'son-Tree 44 

Him an' Me 48 

A Voice of the Fields 55 

The Weaver's Dye 57 

The Slumber Ship 58 

The Robin's Wedding 61 

Old Home, Good-bye! 64 * 

The Rustic Dance 66 

To a Dead Classmate 69 

Of God or Caesar 72 

Dear to My God are the Rills . . . . 73 



IN VARIOUS MOODS 



THE SOWERS 

Written for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding 
of St. Lawrence University 

I know the hills that lift the distant plain, 
The college hall — the spirit of its throngs, 

The meadows and the waving fields of grain, 
Full well I know their colors and their songs. 

I know the storied gates where love was told, 
The grove where walked the muses and the seers, 

The river, dark or touched with light of gold, 
Or slow, or swift so like the flowing years. 

I know not these who sadly sit them down 
And while the night in half- forgotten days; 

I know not these who wear the hoary crown 
And find a pathos in the merry lays. 

[i] 



Here Memory, with old wisdom on her lips, 
A finger points at each familiar name — 

Some writ on water, stone or stranded ships, 
Some in the music of the trump of fame. 

Here oft, I think, beloved voices call 

Behind a weathered door 'neath ancient trees, 

I hear sad echoes in the empty hall, 

The wide world's lyric in the harping breeze. 

It sings of them I loved and left of old, 

Of my fond hope to bring a worthy prize — 

Some well-earned token, better far than gold, 
And lay it humbly down before their eyes, 

And tell them it were rightly theirs — not mine, 
An harvest come of their own word and deed; 

I strove with tares that threatened my design 
To make the crop as noble as the seed. 

So they might see it paid — that life they knew — 
A toilsome web and knit of many a skein, 



With love's sweet sacrifice all woven through, 
And broken threads of hope and joy and pain. 

On root-bound acres, pent with rocks and atones, 

Their hope of wealth and leisure slowly died. 
They gave their strengtn in toil that racked their 

bones, 
They gave their youth, their beauty, and their pride 

Ere Nature's last defence had been withdrawn 
That those they loved might have what they could 
not — 

The power of learning wedded to their brawn 
And to the simple virtue there begot. 

My college! Once — it was a day of old — 
I saw thy panes aglow with sunset fire 

And heard the story of thy purpose told 
And felt the tide of infinite desire. 

In thee I saw the gates of mystery 

That led to dream-lit, vast, inviting lands — 

[3] 



Far backward to the bourne of history 

And forward to the House not made with hands. 

You gave the husbandman a richer yield 
Than any that his granary may hold; 

You called his children from the shop and field, 
Taught them to sow and reap an undredfold. 

To sow the seed of truth and hope and peace, 
And take the root of error from the sod; 

To be of those who make the sure increase, 
Forever growing, in the lands of God. 



[4] 



THE NEW WORLD 

Read before the Lambda Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 
June 24, 1902 

Idle gods of Old Olympus — Zeus and his immortal 

clan, 
Grown in stature, grace and wisdom, meekly serve 

the will of man. 
Every elemental giant has been trained to seek and 

raise 
Gates of the "impossible" that lead to undiscovered 

ways. 

Man hath come to stranger things than ever bard 
or prophet saw. 

Lo, he sits in judgment on the gods and doth amend 
their law. 

Now reality with wonder-deed of ancient fable teems — 

Fact is wrought of golden fancy from the old Ho- 
meric dreams. 

[5] 



Zeus, with thought to load the fulmen gathered for 
his mighty sling, 

Hurls across the ocean desert as 'twere ut a pebble- 
fling; 

Titans move the gathered harvests, push the loaded 
ship and train. 

Rushing swiftly 'twixt horizons, shoulder to the 
hurricane. 

Hermes, of the winged sandal, strides from mid- 
day into night. 

Pallas, with a nobler passion, turns the hero from 
his fight. 

Vulcan melts the sundered mountain into girder, 
beam and frieze. 

Where the mighty wheel is turning hear the groan 
of Hercules. 

Eyes of man, forever reaching where immensity 

envails, 
View the ships of God in full career with light upon 

their sails. 

[6] 



Read the tonnage, log, and compass — measure each 

magnetic chain 
Fastened to the fiery engine towing in the upper 

main. 

Man hath searched the small infernos, narrow as a 

needle's eye, 
Rent the veil of littleness 'neath which unnumbered 

dragons lie. 
Conquered pain with halted feeling, baned the 

falling House of Life, 
As with breeding rats infested, ravening in bloody 

strife. 

Change hath shorn the distances from little unto 

mighty things — 
Aye, fiom man to God, from poor to rich, from 

peasants unto kings. 
Justice, keen-eyed, Saxon-hearted, scans the records 

of the world 
Makes the heartless tyrant tremble when her stern 

rebuke is hurled. 

[7] 



Thought-ways, reaching under oceans or above the 
mountain height, 

Drain to distant, darkened realms the ceaseless over- 
flow of light. 

In the shortened ways of travel Charity shall seek 
her goal, 

Find the love her burden merits in the commerce 
of the soul. 

Right must rule in earth and heaven, though its 

coming here be slow; 
Gods must grow in grace and wisdom as the mind 

of man doth grow; 
Law and Prophet be forgotten, deities uprise and 

fall 
Till one God, one hope, one rule of life be great 

enough for all. 



[8] 



FAITH 

Being some words of counsel from an old Yankee 
to his son Bill when the latter is about to enter college. 

Faith, Bill ? You remember how ye used to wake 

an' cry, 
An' when I lit a candle how the bugaboos 'u'd fly ? 
Well, faith is like a father in the dark of every 

night — 
It tells ye not t' be afraid, an' mebbe strikes a 

light. 

Now, don't expect too much o' God, it wouldn't 

be quite fair 
If fer anything ye wanted ye could only swap a 

prayer; 
I'd pray fer yours, an' you fer mine, an' Deacon 

Henry Hospur, 
He wouldn't hev a thing t' do but lay abed an' 

prosper. 

[9] 



If all things come so easy, Bill, they'd hev but little 

worth, 
An' some one with a gift o' prayer 'u'd mebbe own 

the earth. 
It's the toil ye give t 9 git a thing — the sweat an' 

blood an' care — 
That makes the kind o' argument that ought to 

back yer prayer. 

Fer the record o' yer doin' — I believe the soul is 
planned 

With some self-workin' register t' tell jest how ye 
stand. 

An' it won't take any cipherin' t' show, that fear- 
ful day, 

If ye've multiplied yer talents well, er thrown 'em 
all away. 

When yer feet are on the summit, an' the wide hori- 
zon clears, 

An' ye look back on yer pathway windin' thro' the 
vale o' tears; 

[10] 



When ye see how much ye've trespassed, an* how 

fur ye've gone astray, 
Ye'll know the way o' Providence ain't apt t' be 

your way. 

God knows as much as can be known, but I don't 

think it's true 
He knows of all the dangers in the path o' me an' 

you. 
If I shet my eyes an' hurl a stun that kills — the 

King o' Siam, 
The chances are that God '11 be as much surprised 

as I am. 

If ye pray with faith believin ', why, ye'll certainly 

receive, 
But that God '11 break His own good law is more'n 

Fll believe. 
If it grieves Him when a sparrow falls, it's sure as 

anything, 
He'd hev turned the arrow, if He could, that broke 

the sparrow's wing. 

[«] 



Ye can read old Nature's history that's writ in rocks 

an' stones, 
Ye can see her throbbin' vitals an' her mighty rack 

o' bones, 
But the soul o' her — the livin' God, a little child 

may know 
No lens er rule o' cipherin' can ever hope t* show. 

There's a part o' God's creation very handy t' yer 

view, 
All the truth o' life is in it an' remember, Bill, it's 

you. 
An' after all yer science ye must look up in yer 

mind 
An' learn its own astronomy the star o' peace t' find. 

There's good old Aunt Samanthy Jane that all her 

journey long 
Has led her heart to labor with a reveille of song. 
Her folks hev robbed an' left her, but her faith in 

goodness grows; 
She hasn't any larnin', but I tell ye, Bill, she knows! 

[12] 



She's hed her share o' troubles; I remember well 

the day 
We took her t' the poor-house — she was singin' all 

the way. 
Ye needn't be afraid t' come where stormy Jordan 

flows, 
If all the Tarnin' ye can git has taught ye half she 

knows. 

There's a many big departments in this ancient 

school o' God, 
An' ye keep right on a Tarnin' till ye lay beneath 

the sod, 
All the books an' apperaytus, all the wisdom o' 

the seers 
Will be jest a preparation fer the study o' the years. 



[13] 



BALLAD OF THE SABRE CROSS AND 7 

A troop of sorrels led by Vic and then a troop of 

bays, 
In the backward ranks of the foaming flanks a 

double troop of grays; 
The horses are galloping muzzle to tail, and back 

of the waving manes 
The troopers sit, their brows all knit, a left hand 

on the reins. 



Their hats are gray, and their shirts of blue have 

a sabre cross and 7, 
And little they know, when the trumpeters blow, 

they'll halt at the gates of heaven. 
Their colors have dipped at the top of a ridge — 

how the long line of cavalry waves ! — 
And over the hills, at a gallop that kills, they are 

riding to get to their graves. 

[14] 



"I heard the scouts jabber all night," said one; 
"they peppered my dreams with alarm. 

"That old Ree scout had his medicine out an' 
was tryin' to fix up a charm." 

There are miles of tepees just ahead, and the war- 
riors in hollow and vale 

Lie low in the grass till the troopers pass and then 
they creep over the trail. 

The trumpets have sounded — the General shouts! 

He pulls up and turns to the rear; 
"We can't go back — they've covered our track — 

we've got t' fight 'em here." 
He rushes a troop to the point of the ridge, where 

the valley opens wide, 
And Smith deploys a line of the boys to stop the 

coming tide. 

A tire flames up on the skirt of the hills; in every 

deep ravine 
The savages yell, like the fiends of hell, behind a 

smoky screen. 

2 [15] 



"Where's Reno?" said Custer. "Why don't he 
charge ? It isn't a time to dally!" 

And he waves his hat, this way and that, as he 
looks across the valley. 

There's a wild stampede of horses ; every man in 

the skirmish line 
Stands at his post as a howling host rush up the 

steep incline. 
Their rifles answer a deadly fire and they fall with 

a fighting frown, 
Till two by two, in a row of blue, the skirmish line 

is down. 

A trooper stood over his wounded mate. "No use 

o' yer tryin' t' fight, 
"Blow out yer brains — you'll suffer hell-pains 

when ye go to the torture to-night. 
"We tackled too much; 'twas a desperate game — 

I knowed we never could win it. 
"Custer is dead — they're all of 'em dead an' I 

shall be dead in a minute." 
[16] 



They're all of them down at the top of the ridge; 

the sabre cross and 7 
On many a breast, as it lies at rest, is turned to the 

smoky heaven. 
Three wounded men are ur and away; they're 

running hard for their lives, 
While bloody corses of riders and horses are 

quivering under the knives. 



Some troopers watch from a distant hill with hope 

that never tires; 
As the shadows fall on the camp of Gall they can 

see its hundred fires; 
And phantoms ride on the dusky plain and the 

troopers tell their fears; 
As the bugle rings, the song it sings they hope may 

reach his ears. 



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There's a reeling dance on the river's edge; its 
echoes fill the night; 

In the valley dim its shadows swim on a lengthen- 
ing pool of light. 

The scattered troops of Reno look and listen with 
bated breath, 

While bugle strains on lonely plains are searching 
the valley of death. 



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"What's that like tumbled grave-stones on the 

hilltop there ahead ?" 
Said the trooper peering through his glass, "My 

God! sir, it's the dead! 
u How white they look! How white they look! 

they've killed 'em — every one! 
"An' they're stripped as bare as babies an' they're 

rotting in the sun." 

[18] 



And Custer — back of the tumbled line on a slope 

of the ridge we found him; 
And three men deep in a bloody heap, they fell as 

they rallied 'round him. 
The plains lay brown, like a halted sea held firm 

by the leash of God; 
In the rolling waves we dug their graves and left 

them under the sod. 



[19] 



WHISPERIN' BILL 

So ye 're runnin' fer Congress, mister ? Le'me tell 
ye 'bout my son — 

Might make you fellers carefuller down there in 
Washington — 

He clings to his rifle an' uniform — folks call him 
Whisperin' Bill; 

An' I tell ye the war ain't over yit up here on Bow- 
man's Hill. 



This dooryard is his battle-field — le's see, he was nigh 

sixteen 
When Sumter fell, an' as likely a boy as ever this 

world has seen; 
An' what with the news o' battles lost, the speeches 

an' all the noise, 
I guess ev'ry farm in the neighborhood lost a part 

of its crop o' boys. 

[20] 



'T was harvest time when Bill left home; ev'ry stalk 

in the fields o' rye 
Seemed to stan' tiptoe to see him off an' wave him 

a fond good-bye; 
His sweetheart was here with some other gals — the 

sassy little miss! 
An' purtendin' she wanted to whisper'n his ear, she 

give him a rousin' kiss. 

Oh, he was a han'some feller! an' tender an' brave 

an' smart, 
An' though he w T as bigger'n I was, the boy had a 

woman's heart. 
I couldn't control my feelin's, but I tried with all 

my might, 
An' his mother an' me stood a-cryin' till Bill was 

out o' sight. 

His mother she often tol' him, when she knew he 

was goin' away, 
That God would take care o' him, maybe, if he 

didn't fergit to pray; 

[21] 



An' on the bloodiest battle-fields, when bullets 

whizzed in the air, 
An' Bill was a-fightin' desperit, he used to whisper 

a prayer. 

Oh, his comrades has often toF me that Bill never 

flinched a bit 
When every second a gap in the. ranks tol' where 

a ball had hit. 
An' one night, when the field was covered with the 

awful harvest o' war, 
They found my boy 'mongst the martyrs o' the cause 

he was fightin' for. 

His fingers was clutched in the dewy grass— oh, 
no, sir, he wasn't dead, 

But he lay kind o' helpless an' crazy with a rifle- 
ball in his head; 

An' he trembled with the battle-fear as he lay there 
in the dew; 

An' he whispered as he tried to rise: "God '11 take 



care o' you." 



[22] 



An officer wrote an' to ' us how the boy had been 

hurt in the fight, 
But he said the doctors reckoned they could bring 

him around all right. 
An' then we heard from a neighbor, disabled at 

Malvern Hill, 
That he thought in the course of a week or so he'd 

be comin' home with Bill. 

We was that anxious t' see him we'd set up an' 

talk o' nights 
Till the break o' day had dimmed the stars an' 

put out the Northern Lights; 
We waited an' watched fer a month or more, an' 

the summer was nearly past, 
When a letter come one day that said they'd started 

fer home at last. 

I'll never fergit the day Bill come — 'twas harvest 

time again — 
An' the air blown over the yeller fields was sweet 

with the scent o' the grain; 

[23] 



The dooryard was full o' the neighbors, who had 

come to share our joy, 
An' all of us sent up a mighty cheer at the sight o' 

that soldier boy. 

An' all of a sudden somebody said: "My God! 

don't the boy know his mother ?" 
An' Bill stood a-whisperin', fearful like, an' a-starin' 

from one to another; 
"Don't be afraid, Bill," says he to himself, as he 

stood in his coat o' blue, 
"Why, God '11 take care o' you, Bill, God '11 take 

care o' you." 

He seemed to be loadin' an' firin' a gun, an' to act 

like a man who hears 
The awful roar o' the battle-field a-soundin' in his 

ears; 
Ten thousan' ghosts o' that bloody day was marchin' 

through his brain 
An' his feet they kind o' picked their way as if 

they felt the slain. 

[24] 



An' I grabbed his hand, an' says I to Bill, "Don't 
ye 'member me ? 

I'm yer father — don't ye know me ? How fright- 
ened ye seem to be!" 

But the boy kep' a-whisperin' to himself, as if 
'twas all he knew, 

"God '11 take o' you, Bill, God '11 take care o' 
you." 

He's never known us since that day, nor his sweet- 
heart, an' never will; 

Father an' mother an' sweetheart are all the same 
to Bill. 

An' he groans like a wounded soldier, sometimes 
the whole night through, 

An' we smooth his head, an' say: "Yes, Bill, 
He '11 surely take care o' you." 

Ye can stop a war in a minute, but when can ye 

stop the groans ? 
Fer ye've broke our hearts an' sapped our blood 

an' plucked away our bones. 

[25] 



An' ye've filled our souls with bitterness that goes 
from sire to. son, 

So ye best be kind o* careful down there in Wash- 
ington. 



[ 2 6] 



THE RED DEW 



Being some small account of the war experience of 
an East River pilot, whose boat was .the Susquehanna, 
familiarity known as the Susq, and who lost his leg 
and more at Gettysburg. 



At de break o' day I goes t' bed, an' I goes to work 

at dusk, 
Fer ev'ry night dat a boat can run I takes de wheel 

o' de Susq. 
De nights is long in de pilot - house ? Well, now 

d'ye hear me speakin' ? 
No night is long since de one I spent wid me sta'b'ard 

side a-leakin\ 

I'd gone t' de war an' was all stove in, an' I seen 

how a little white hand 
Can take holt of a great big chump like me an' 

make him drop his sand. 

[27] 



An' her face! De face o' de Holy Mary warn't 

any sweeter 'n hern! 
If ye like I'll set de wheel o' me mind an' let 'er 

drift astern. 

We'd fit all day till de sun was low an' I t'ought de 

war was fun, 
Till a big ball skun de side o' me face an' smashed 

de end o' me gun. 
Den anodder one kicked me foot off — see ? an' 

I tell ye it done it cunnin', 
An' I trun meself in de grass, kerplunk, but me 

mind kep' on a-runnin'. 

Next I knowed I was feelin' o' somebody's face, 

an' I seen de poor devil was cryin', 
An' he tumbled all over me tryin' t' r'ise, an' he 

cussed an' kep' turnin' an' tryin'; 
"Good Gawd!" sez I, "what's de matter wid you? 

Shut up yer face an' hark," 
An' s' help me, de odder man's face was mine an' 

I was alone in de dark. 

[28] 



When I lay wid me back ag'in de world I seen how 

little I was 
An' I knowed, fer de firs' time in me life, how deep 

an' broad de sky was; 
An' me mind kep' a-wanderin' off 'n de night, till 

it stopped where de Bowery ends, 
An' come back a-sighin' an' says t' me dat it couldn't 

find no friends. 

Den I fumbled me breat' till I cert'inly t'ought 

I never could ketch it ag'in. 
If I'd bin a-bawlin' t' git a prize ye bet cher life 

I'd 'a' win. 
If ye're dyin' an' ain't no home in de world an' 

yer fr'ends is all on de shelf, 
An' dere's nobody else t' bawl fer ye — ye're goin' 

t' bawl fer yerself. 

De sun peeped over de hills at last, an' as soon as 

I seen his rim 
De dew in de valley was all afire wid a sort o' a 

ruby glim. 

[29] 



De blue coats lay in de tumbled grass — some 

stirrin' but most o' 'em dead — 
Ton me word, de poor devils had bled so much, 

de dew in de valley were red! 

An' what d'ye t'ink ? de nex' t'ing I knowed, a 

lady had holt o' me hand, 
An' smoothed de frills all out o' me face an' brushed 

off de dew an' de sand. 
No lady had ever mammied me an* I were scairt 

so I dassent say boo, 
I warn't in no shape t' help meself an' I didn't 

know what she'd do. 

An' me heart was a-t'umpin' ag'in me ribs, an' me 

lettin' on I was dead! 
Till she put down her cheek so close to me mug 

dat I had t' move me head. 
An' she lifted me head wid her sof white hands 

an' I don't know all she done; 
I was blubberin' so dat I couldn't see, but I knowed 

I were havin' fun. 

[30] 



I lay wid me head 'n de lady's lap while de doctors 

cut an* sawed, 
An' dey hurted me so dat me eyes was sot, but I 

never cussed er jawed. 
An' she patted me cheek an' spoke so sof dat I 

didn't move a peg, 
An' I t'ought if dey'd let me lay dere awhile dey 

could saw off de odder leg. 

Fer de loss o' me leg, t'ree times a year, I gets me 
little wad, 

But dere ain't any pension fer losin' yer heart un- 
less it comes from Gawd. 

If anythin' busts ye there, me boy, I t'ink ye'll be 
apt t' find 

Ye'll either drop out o' de game o' life, er else go 
lame in yer mind. 

I never c'u'd know de reason why, till de lady 

helt me head, 
Dat a man '11 go broke fer de woman he loves er 

mebbe fight till he's dead. 

3 [31] 



When I t'inks dat I never had no friends an' what 

am I livin' fer ? 
I fergits dat I'm holdin' de wheel o' de Susq y an' 

I sets an' t'inks o' her. 

An' I t'inks how gentle she spoke t' me, an' I t'inks 
o' her sof', white hand, 

An' de feel o' her fingers on me face when she 
brushed off de dew an' de sand. 

An' I set a-t'inkin' an' turnin' me wheel, some- 
times de whole night t'rough, 

An' de good Gawd knows I'd a giv' me life, if she'd 
only 'a' loved me too. 



[32] 



THE BABY CORPS 

Being some account of the little cadets of the Vir- 
ginia Military Institute, who stood the examination 
of war at New Market, Fa., May 15, 1864, in the front 
line of the Confederate forces, where more than three 
hundred answered to their names and all zuere perfect. 

We were only a lot of little boys — they called us a 

baby corps — 
At the Institute in Lexington in the winter 

of '64; 
And the New Year brought to the stricken South 

no end of the war in sight, 
But we thought we could whip the North in a week 

if they'd only let us fight. 

One night when the boys were all abed we heard 

the long roll beat, 
And quickly the walls of the building shook with 

the tread of hurrying feet; 

[33] 



And when the battalion stood in line we heard the 

welcome warning: 
"Breckinridge needs the help o' the corps; be 

ready to march in the morning." 

And many a boastful tale was told, through the 

lingering hours of night, 
And the teller fenced with airy foes and showed 

how heroes fight. 
And notes of love were written with many a fevered 

sigh, 
That breathed the solemn sacrifice of those about 

to die. 

Some sat in nature's uniform patching their suits 

of gray, 
And some stood squinting across their guns in a 

darkly suggestive way. 
The battalion was off on the Staunton pike as soon 

as the sun had risen, 
And we turned and cheered for the Institute, but 

.yesterday a prison. 

[34] 



At Staunton the soldiers chaffed us, and the girls 

of the city schools 
Giggled and flirted around the corps till we felt like 

a lot of fools; 
They threw us kisses and tiny drums and a volley 

of baby rattles, 
'Til we thought that the fire of ridicule was worse 

than the fire of battles. 

We made our escape in the early dawn, and, camp- 
ing the second night. 

Were well on our way to the seat of war, with Har- 
risonburg in sight; 

And the troopers who met us, riding fast from the 
thick of the army hives, 

Said: "Sigel has come with an awful force, and 
ye'll have to fight fer yer lives/' 

But we wanted to fight, and the peril of war never 

weakened our young desires, 
And the third day out we camped at dusk in sight 

of the picket fires; 

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Our thoughts, wing-weary with homeward flight, 

went astray in the gloomy skies, 
And our hearts were beating a reveille whenever 

we closed our eyes. 

"Hark! what's that? The sentry call?" (A 

galloping horseman comes.) 
"Hey, boys! Get up! There's something wrong! 

Don't ye hear 'em a-thumpin' the drums ?" 
Said the captain, who sat in the light of the fire 

tying his muddy shoes: 
"We must toe the line of the Yankees soon, an* 

we haven't much time to lose. 

"Hats off!" And we all stood silent while the 

captain raised his hand 
And prayed, imploring the God of war to favor 

his little band. 
His voice went out in a whisper at last, and then 

without further remark 
He bade the battalion form in fours, and led us 

away in the dark. 

[36] 



We lamed our legs on the heavy road and a long 

rain cooled our blood 
And every time we raised a foot we could hear the 

suck of the mud. 
At noon we came — a weary lot — to the top of a 

big clay hill, 
And below were miles of infantry — the whole bunch 

standing still. 

The league-long hills are striped with blue, the 

valley is lined with gray, 
And between the armies of North and South are 

blossoming fields of May. 
There's a mighty cheer in the Southern host as, 

led by the fife and drum, 
To the front of the lines with a fearless tread our 

baby cadets have come. 

"Forward!" The air is quaking now; a shrill- 
voiced, angry yell 

Answers the roar of the musketry and the scream 
of the rifled shell. 

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The gray ranks rushing, horse and foot, at the flam- 
ing wall of blue 

Break a hole in its centre, and some one shouts: 
"See the little cadets go through!" 

A shell shoots out of its hood of smoke, and slows 

mid-air and leaps 
At our corps that is crossing a field of wheat, and 

we stagger and fall in heaps; 
We close the ranks, and they break again, when a 

dozen more fall dying; 
And some too hurt to use their guns stand up with 

the others trying. 

"Lie down an' give 'em a volley, boys — quick there, 
every one! 

"Lie down, you little devils! — Down! It's better 
to die than run." 

And huddling under the tender wheat, the living lay 
down with the dead, 

And you couldn't have lifted your finger then with- 
out touching a piece of lead. 

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"Look up in the sky and see the shells go over 

a-whiskin' their tails"; 
"Better not lift yer hand too high or the bullets 

'11 trim yer nails." 
Said the captain, "Forward, you who can!" In a 

jiffy I'm off on my feet 
An' up to their muzzles a-clubbin' my gun, an' 

the Yanks have begun a retreat. 

Said a wounded boy, peering over the grain, 

"Hurrah! See our banner a-flyinM 
"Wish I was there, but I can't get up — I wonder 

if Fm a-dyin' ? 
"O Jim! did you ever hear of a man that lived 

that was hit in the head ? 
"Say, Jim! did you ever hear of a man that 

lived — My God! Jim's dead!" 

A mist, like a web that is heavy with prey, is caught 

in the green o' the fields; 
It breaks and is parted as if a soul were struggling 

where it yields; 

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The twilight deepens and hushes all, save the beat- 
ing of distant drums, 

And over the shuddering deep of the air a wave of 
silence comes. 

By lantern light we found the boys where under the 

wheat they lay 
As if sleep — soft-fingered, compelling sleep! — had 

come in the midst of play. 
The captain said of the bloody charge and the 

soldiers who fought so well : 
"The army had to follow the boys if they entered 

the flames o' hell/' 



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PICTURE, SOUND AND SONG 

The battle roar is ended and the twilight falls 

again, 
The bugles have blown, the hosts have flown save 

they in the dusky grain. 
And lo! the shaking barley tells where the wounded 

writhe and roll; 
With a panting breath at the pass of death the body 

fights for the soul. 
Some rise to retreat and they die on their feet in 

this terrible fight for the soul. 



And horses urged by the spur of Death are gallop- 
ing over the grain; 

Their hoofs are red, their riders are dead, and 
loose are the stirrup and rein. 

A ghost in the saddle is riding them down, the 
spurs of Pain at his heels; 

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They are cut to the bone, they rush and they groan, 

as a wake in the barley reels: 
And faces rise with haggard eyes where the wake 

in the barley reels. 

The blue and the gray lie face to face and their 

fingers harrow the loam, 
There's a sob and a prayer in the smoky air as 

their winged thoughts fly home. 
The Devil of war has dimmed the sky with the 

breath of his iron lungs, 
And he gluts his ear on the note of fear in the cry 

of the fevered tongues; 
Like the toll of a bell at the gate of hell is the wail 

of the fevered tongues. 

One rising, walked from the bullet shock, seems to 

reel 'neath the weight of his head, 
He feels for his gun and starts to run and falls in a 

hollow — dead. 
The wagons are coming and over each the light of 

a lantern swings, 

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And a holy thought to the soul is brought, as the 

voice of a driver sings; 
And the cry of pain in the trampled grain is hushed 

as the driver sings: 

My country, 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 
Of thee I sing. 



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THE VEN'SON-TREE 

The busy cranes go back an' forth, a-ploughin' up 

the sky, 
The wild goose drag comes down the wind an' 

goes a-roarin' by; 
The song-birds sow their music in the blue fields 

over me 
An' it seems to grow up into thoughts about the 

ven'son-tree. 



The apple-blossoms scatter down — a scented sum- 
mer snow, 

An' man an' wind an' cloud an' sun have all begun 
to sow. 

The green hopes come a-sproutin' up somewhere 
inside o' me, 

An' it's time we ought to see the sprouts upon the 
ven'son-tree. 

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The velvet leaves the willow an' adorns the ven'son 

bough, 
There's new silk in the tree-top an' the coat o' horse 

an' cow. 
The woods are trimmed fer weddin's, an' are all 

in Sunday clo's, 
An' the bark upon the ven'son-tree is redder than 

a rose. 

The days are still an' smoky, an' the nights are 
growin' cold, 

The maples are a-drippin' blood, the beeches 
drippin' gold; 

The briers are above my head, the brakes above 
my knee, 

An' the bark is gettin' kind o' blue upon the ven'son- 
tree. 

What makes the big trees shake an' groan as if 

they all had sinned ? 
'Tis God A'mighty's reaper with the horses o' the 

wind. 

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He will hitch with chains o' lightnin', He will urge 

with thunder call, 
He will try the rotten-hearted till they reel an* 

break an' fall. 

The leaves are driftin' in the breeze, an' gathered 

where they lie 
Are the colors o' the sunset an' the smell o' the 

windy sky; 
The squirrels whisk, with loaded mouths, an' stop 

an' say to me: 
"It's time to gether in the fruit upon the ven'son- 

tree. 

"What makes ye look so anxious an' what makes 

ye speak so low ?" 
"It's 'cause I'm thinkin' of a place where I'm a- 

goin' to go. 
"This here I've been a-tinkerin' which lays acrost 

my knee 
"Is the axe that I'm a-usin' fer to fell the ven'son- 

tree." 

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I've polished up the iron arT I've covered it with ile, 
Its bit is only half an inch, its helve is half a 

mile. 
(The singer blows an imitation of the startled deer) 
"Whew! what's that so pesky — why, it kind o* 

frightened me ?" 
"It's the wind a blowin' through the top o the 

cute oP ven'son-tree." 



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HIM AN' ME 

Being a story of the Adirondacks told by me in the 
words of him who had borne with buck-fever and bad 
marksmanship until, having been long out of meat and 
patience, he put his confidence in me and we sallied 
forth. 

We'd greased our tongues with bacon 'til they'd 

shy at food an' fork 
An' the trails o' thought were slippery an' slopin' 

towards New York; 
An' our gizzards shook an' trembled an' were most 

uncommon hot 
An' the oaths were slippin' easy from the tongue 

o' Philo Scott. 

Then skyward rose a flapjack an' a hefty oath he 

swore 
An' he spoke of all his sufFerin' which he couldn't 

stan' no more; 

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An' the flapjack got to jumpin' like a rabbit on 

the run 
As he give his compliments to them who couldn't 

p'int a gun. 

He told how deer would let 'em come an' stan' an' 

rest an' shoot 
An' how bold an' how insultin' they would eye the 

tenderfoot; 
How he — Fide Scott — was hankerin' fer suthin' 

fit to eat 
" !" says he. "Le's you an' me go out an' 

find some meat." 

We paddled off a-whisperin' beneath the long birch 

limbs 
An' we snooked along as silent as a sucker when 

he swims; 
I could hear him slow his paddle as eroun' the 

turns he bore; 
I could hear his neck a-creakin' while his eye run 

up the shore. 

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An' soon we come acrost a buck as big an' bold 

as sin 
An' Philo took t' swallerin' to keep his feel- 

in's in; 
An' every time he swallered, as he slowly swung 

eroun', 
I could hear his Adam's apple go a-squeakin' up 

an' down. 

He sot an' worked his paddle jest as skilful as he 

could 
An' we went on slow an' careless, like a chunk o' 

floatin' wood: 
An' I kind o' shook an' shivered an' the pesky ol' 

canoe 
It seemed to feel as I did, for it shook an' shivered 

too. 

I sot there, full o' deviltry, a-p'intin' with the 

gun, 
An' we come up clost and closter, but the deer he 

didn't run; 

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An' Philo shet his teeth so hard he split his brier- 

root 
As he held his breath a-waitin' an' expectin' me to 

shoot. 

I could kind o' feel him hanker, I could kind o' 

hear him think, 
An' we'd come so nigh the animal we didn't dast 

to wink, 
But I kep' on a-p'intin' of the rifle at the deer 
Jest as if I was expectin' fer to stick it in his 

ear. 

An' Philo tetched the gunnel soft an' shook it with 

his knee; 
I kind o' felt him nudgin' an' a-wishin' he was me, 
But I kep' on a-p'intin', with a foolish kind o' grin, 
Enjoyin' all the wickedness that he was holdin' in. 

An' of a sudden I could feel a tremble in his feet; 
I knew that he was gettin' mad an' fillin' up with 
heat. 

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His breath come fast an' faster, but he couldn't 

say a damn — 
He'd the feelin's of a panther an' the quiet of a 

lamb. 

An' his foot come creepin' forwards an' he tetched 

me with his boot 
An* he whispered low an' anxious, an says he: 

"Why don't ye shoot?" 
An' the buck he see the time had come fer him an' 

us to part 
An' away he ran as Philo pulled the trigger of his 

heart. 

He had panthers in his bosom, he had horns upon 

his mind; 
An' the panthers spit an' rassled an' their fur riz 

up behind; 
An' he gored me with his languidge an* he clawed 

me with his eye 
'Til I wisht that, when I done him dirt, I hadn't 

been so nigh. 

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He scairt the fish beneath us an* the birds upon the 

shore 
An' he spoke of all his sufferin' which he couldn't 

stan' no more; 
Then he sot an' thought an' muttered as he pushed 

a mile er so 
Like a man that's lost an' weary on the mountain 

of his woe. 

An' he eyed me over cur'ous an' with pity on his 

face 
An' he seemed to be a sortin' words to make 'em 

fit the case. 
"Of all the harmless critters that I ever met," says 

he, 
"There ain't not none more harmlesser — my God! — 

than what you be." 

An' he added, kind o' sorrowful, an' hove a mighty 

sigh: 
"I'd be 'shamed t' meet another deer an' look him 

in the eye. 

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God knows a man that p'ints so never orter hev no 

grub, 
What game are you expectin* fer t 9 slaughter with 

a club ?" 

An' I answered with a riddle: "It has head an' 

eyes an' feet 
An' is black an' white an' harmless, but a fearful 

thing to meet; 
It's a long an' pesky animal as any in the county; 
Can't ye guess ? — I've ketched a pome an' I'll give 

ye half the bounty." 



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A VOICE OF THE FIELDS 

The red was on the clover an' the blue was in the 

sky; 
There was music in the meadow, there was dancing 

in the rye, 
An' I heard her call the scattered flock in pastures 

far away 
An' the echo in the wooded hills: "Co' day! Co' 

day! Co' day!" 



O fair was she — my lady love — an' lithe as the 
willow-tree, 

An' like a miser's money are her parting words 
t' me. 

O the years are long an' lonesome since my sweet- 
heart went away! 

An' I think o' her as I call the flocks: "Co' day! 
Co' day! Co' day!" 

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Her cheeks have stole the clover's red, her lips the 

odored air, 
An' the glow o' the morning sunlight she took away 

in her hair; 
Her voice had the meadow music, her form an' 

her laughing eye 
Have taken the blue o' the heavens an' the grace 

o' the bending rye. 

My love has robbed the summer day — the held, 

the sky, the dell, 
She has carried their treasurers with her, she has 

taken my heart as well; 
An' if ever, in the further fields, her feet should 

go astray 
May she hear the good God calling her: "Co' day! 

Co' day! Co' day!" 



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THE WEAVER'S DYE 

There's many a hue an' some I knew in the skeins 

of a weaver old — 
Ah, there is the white o' the lily hand an' the glow 

o' the silky gold! 
An' the crimson missed in the lips we kissed an' 

the blue o' the maiden's eye; 
O, look at the wonderful web of life, an' look at 

the weaver's dye! 



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THE SLUMBER SHIP 

A Lullaby 

Jack Tot is as big as a baby's thumb, 
And his dinner is only a drop and a crumb 
And a wee little sailor is he. 

Heigh ho! 
A very fine sailor is he. 

He made his boat of a walnut shell; 

He sails her at night, and he steers her well 

With the wing of a bumblebee. 

Heigh ho! 
The wing of a bumblebee. 

She is rigged with the hair of a lady's curl, 
And her lantern is made of a gleaming pearl, 
And it never goes out in a gale. 

Heigh ho! 
It never goes out in a gale. 

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Her mast is made of a very long thorn; 
She's a bell for the fog, and a cricket's horn, 
And a spider spun her sail. 

Heigh ho! 
A spider he spun her sail. 

She carries a cargo of baby souls, 

And she crosses the terrible Nightmare Shoals, 

On her way to the Isles of Rest. 

Heigh ho! 
The beautiful Isles of Rest. 

The Slumber Sea is the sea she sails, 
While the skipper is telling incredible tales 
With many a merry jest. 

Ho! ho! 
He's fond of a merry jest. 

When the little folks yawn they're ready to go, 
And the skipper is lifting his sail — he ho! 
In the swell how the little folks nod! 

Ha! ha! 
Just see how the little folks nod! 

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And some have sailed off when the sky was all black 
And the poor little sailors have never come back, 
But have steered for the City of God. 

Heigh ho! 
The beautiful City of God. 



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THE ROBIN'S WEDDING 

In the fashion of a certain old Yankee nursery 
tale 

Young robin-red breast had a beautiful nest an* he 

says to his love says he: 
It's ready now on a rockin' bough 
In the top of a maple-tree. 
I've lined it with down an' the velvet brown from 

the waist of a bumblebee. 



They were married next day, in the land o' the hay, 

the lady bird an' he, 
The bobolink came an' the wife o' the same 
An' the lark an' the fiddle-de-dee. 
An' the crow came down in a minister-gown — 

there was nothing that he didn't see. 
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He fluttered his wing as they ast him to sing an' 
he tried fer t' clear out his throat; 

He hemmed an' he hawed an' he hawked an' he 
cawed 

But he couldn' deliver a note. 

The swallow was there an' he ushered each pair 
in his linsey an' claw-hammer coat. 

The bobolink tried fer t 9 flirt with the bride, in a 

way that was sassy an' bold, 
An' the notes that he took as he shivered an' 

shook 
Had a sound like the jingle o' gold. 
He sat on a brier an' laughed at the choir an' told 

'em the music was old. 

The sexton he came — Mr. Spider by name — a 

citizen hairy an' gray. 
His rope in a steeple, he called the good people 
That live in the land o' the hay. 
The ants an' the squgs an' the crickets an' bugs 

came out in a mighty array. 

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A number came down from ole Barleytown an' the 

neighborin' city o' Rye. 
An' the little black people each climbed up a steeple, 
An' sat lookin' up at the sky; 
They came fer t' see what a weddin' might be an' 

they furnished the cake an' the pie. 



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OLD HOME, GOOD-BYE! 

The day is passing; I have tarried long; 
My way leads far through paths I fear to try; 
But as I go I'll cheer my heart with song — 
Old home, good-bye! 

In hallowed scenes what feet have trod thy stage! 
The babe, the maiden leaving home to wed; 
The young man going forth by duty led 
And faltering age. 

And some, returning from far distant lands, 
Fainting and sick their ways to thee have wended 
To feel the sweet ministry of loving hands, 
Their journeys ended. 

Thou hadst a soul — thy goodly prop and stay 
That kept the log, the compass and the chart, 
And showed the way for many a trusting heart — 
The long, long way! 

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O humble home! thou hadst a secret door 
Through which I looked, betimes, with wondering 

eye 
On splendors that no palace ever wore 

In days gone by. 

From narrow walls thy lamp gave glad release 
And shone afar on distant lands and powers; 
A sweet voice sang of love and heavenly peace 
And made them ours. 

Thou hadst a magic window, broad and high — 
The light and glory of the morning shone 
Through it, however dark the day had grown 
Or bleak the sky. 

Its panes, like mighty lenses, brought to view 
A fairer home; I saw in depths above 
The timber of the old home in the new — 
The oak of love. 



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THE RUSTIC DANCE 

To Jones's tavern, near the ancient woods, 

Drive young and old from distant neighborhoods. 

Here comes old Crocket with his great bass horn — 

Its tone less fit for melody than scorn. 

Down through its wrinkled tubes, from first to last, 

A century's caravan of song has passed. 

The boys and girls, their mirthful sports begun, 

With noisy kisses punctuate the fun. 

Some youths look on, too bashful to assist 

And bear the sweet disgrace of being kissed. 



The fiddler comes — his heart a merry store, 
And shouts of welcome greet him at the door. 
Unlettered man — how rude the jest he flings! 
But mark his power to wake the tuneful strings! 
The old folks smile and tell how, long ago, 
Their feet obeyed the swaying of his bow; 
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And how the God-sent magic of his art 

To thoughts of love inclined the youthful heart, 

And shook the bonds of care from aged men 

Who 'neath the spell returned to youth again. 

He taps the fiddle-back as 'twere a drum; 

The raw recruits in Cupid's army come; 

And heeding not the praise his playing wins, 

The ebullition of his soul begins. 

The zeal of Crocket turned to scornful sound, 

Pursues the measure like a baying hound. 

The fiddle's notes pour forth like showers of rain, 

The dancers sway like wind-swept fields of grain, 

And midst the storm, to maddening fury stirred, 

The thunder of the old bass horn is heard. 



Beside the glowing fire, with smiles serene, 
An aged couple sit and view the scene. 
Grandfather's ears the reveille have caught, 
And thronging memories fill the camps of thought. 
His heels strike on the floor, with measured beat, 
As if to ease a tickling in his feet. 

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Year after year, for love of kith and kin, 

Grandmother's hands have had to toil and spin; 

But since the palsy all their cunning stole 

Her mind is spinning raiment for the soul, 

Of spotless white and beauty fit to wear, 

When comes the Bridegroom and the end of care. 



So goes the dance until the night is gone 
And chanticleer proclaims the breaking dawn. 
The waning stars show pale to wearied eyes 
And seem to dance cotillions in the skies; 
As if, forsooth, upon the journey home 
Terpsichore's music filled the starry dome. 



Blest be the dance! with noisy pleasure rife 
Enough to temper all the woe in life; 
What magic power its capering measures hold 
To keep the hearts of men from growing old! 
Stern Father Time, rejoicing in the scene, 
Forbears to reap while yet the fields are green. 
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TO A DEAD CLASSMATE 

He started on the left road and I went on the 

right, 
We were young and strong and the way was long 

and we travelled day an' night; 
And O the haste and O the waste! and the rush 

of the busy throng! 
The worried eye, and the quick good-bye, and 

the need to hurry along! 



Odd times we met on the main highway and told 

our hopes and fears, 
And after every parting came a wider flood of 

years. 
I love to tell of the last farewell, and this is the way 

it ran: 
"I don't know when I'll see you again — take care 

of yourself, ol' man." 

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Put the Beta pin upon his breast, with rosemary 

and rue, 
The cap and gown, the scarlet and brown and the 

symbol of '82, 
And lay him low with a simple word as the loving 

eye grows dim: 
"He took care of more than his share — O Christ! 

take care of him." 

The snow is falling on the head and aye the heart 

grows cold; 
The new friend comes to claim a share of that we 

gave the old, 
And men forget while the eye is wet and bend to 

the lug of the load, 
And whether or when they will meet you again is 

ever a chance of the road. 

The babes are boys, the boys are men, and slowly, 
year by year, 

New faces throng the storied halls and old ones dis- 
appear. 

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As the hair is grayed and the red lips fade let 

friend be friend, for aye 
We come and go and ere we know have spoken 

a long good-bye. 



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OF GOD OR C^SAR 



TO MY FRIEND A. B. 



The veil of care is lifted from his face! 

How smooth the brow where toil had left its trace! 

How confident the look, how calm the eyes 

Once keen with life and restless enterprise! 

And gone the lines that marked the spirit's haste 

To do its work, nor any moment waste. 

Imperial peace and beauty crown his head, 

God's superscription writ upon the dead. 

Behold, herein, his dream, his inmost thought 

As if in time-washed Parian marble wrought. 

Truly he read the law we must obey: 

Man moulds the image and God gives the clay, 

And if it's cast of God or Caesar is 

To each all render what is rightly his. 



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DEAR TO MY GOD ARE THE RILLS 

Thousands at noontide are climbing the hills under 

Nain, like an army 
Fleeing the carnage of war, seeking where it may 

rest and take counsel; 
Some with the blind or the palsied, some bearing 

the sick on their shoulders, 
Lagging but laboring hard, so they be not too far 

from the Prophet; 
Some bringing only a burden of deep and inveterate 

longing. 
Hard by the gate of the city their Captain halts 

and is waiting. 
Closer the multitude presses and widens afar on 

the hillside; 
Thronged are the ways to the city with eager and 

hastening comers. 
Heard ye ? A man was delivered from death by 

his power, and the story 

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Crosses the murmuring host like a wave passing 

over the waters, 
How at the touch of his finger this day, the dead 

rose and was living. 
Hushed are the people; the Prophet is speaking; 

his hand is uplifted — 
Lo! the frail hand that ere long was to stop the mad 

rush of the tempest. 
Quickly their voices are hushed, and the fear of 

Jehovah is on them. 

Jesus stood high on a hillock. His face, so divinely 

impassioned, 
Shone with the light that of old had illumined the 

dreams of the prophets. 
Gently he spake, like a shepherd who calleth his 

flock to green pastures. 

Hiding her face and apart from the people, a woman 

stood weeping, 
Daughter of woe! on a rosary strung with her 

tears ever counting 

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Treasures her heart had surrendered and writ on 

her brow was the record. 
Hope and the love of her kindred and peace and 

all pleasure had left her 
Chained to the pillar of life like a captive, and 

Shame was her keeper. 



Long spake the Prophet, and scarcely had finished 

when came the afflicted, 
Loudly entreating: "Make way for the blind!" and 

the people were parted, 
Silent with pity, and many were suffered to pass; 

but the woman 
Felt no miraculous touch, for the press kept her 

back and rebuked her. 
"Why comest thou to the Prophet?" they said. 

"Get thee hence and be silent; 
"He hath no mercy for thee or thy kind"; and 

the woman stood weeping. 
Now when the even was come over Nain, and the 

bridge of the twilight, 

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Silently floating aloft on the deepening flood of the 

shadows, 
Rested its timbers of gold on the summits of Tabor 

and Hermon, 
Jesus came, weary, to sup at the house of one 

Simon, a Pharisee, 
Dwelling at Nain. Far behind him the woman 

came, following slowly; 
Entered the gate in the dusk, and when all were 

reclining at supper, 
Stood by the Prophet, afraid, like a soul that has 

come to its judgment, 
Weeping, her head bowing low, her hair hanging 

loose on her shoulders. 
Then there was silence, and Jesus was moved, so 

he spake to the woman: 
"Daughter, what grieves thee so sore?" and she 

spake not, but dumb with her weeping 
Sank at his feet; and her tears fell upon them like 

rain, and she kissed them. 
Simon, amazed when the Prophet forbade not the 

woman to touch him, 

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Rose to rebuke her; but seeing His face, how it 
shone with compassion, 

Waited; and Jesus then spake: "I have some- 
what to say to thee, Simon. 

"A man had two debtors of pence, and the one 
owed five hundred, 

"The other owed fifty; and when they had nothing 
to pay he forgave them 

"All that they owed; wherefore which of the two 
will most love him ?" 

Simon said, thoughtfully: "He, I suppose, to whom 
most was forgiven." 

Jesus made answer: "Thou judgest well. Con- 
sider this woman. 

"Weary with travel and sore were my feet, but 
thou gavest no water; 

" She, to wash them, hath given the tears of her 
love and her sorrow, 

" Wiping them dry with her hair; and hath kissed 
them and bathed them with ointment. 

"Wherefore, O woman, weep not! I forgive thee 
thy sins which are many. 

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"Go thou in peace." And those who were with Him 
at meat were astonished. 

"Lo! she spoke not, she asked not and yet He for- 
gave her," they whispered. 

Dear to my God are the rills that flow from the 

mountains of sorrow 
Over the faces of men and in them is a rainbow of 

promise. 
Strong is the prayer of the rills that oft bathed the 

feet of The Master. 



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One copy del. to Cat. Div. 



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